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Lentz Martins, Haimée Emerich; De Souza, Maria de Lourdes; Arzuaga-Salazar, María Angélica
Mortalidade materna por hemorragia no Estado de Santa Catarina, Brasil
Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP, vol. 47, núm. 5, octubre, 2013, pp. 1025-1030
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Original Article
DOI: 10.1590-S0080-623420130000500003
Maternal mortality from hemorrhage
in the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil
MORTALIDADE MATERNA POR HEMORRAGIA NO ESTADO DE SANTA CATARINA, BRASIL
MORTALIDAD MATERNA POR HEMORRAGIA OCURRIDA EN EL ESTADO DE SANTA
CATARINA, BRASIL
Haimée Emerich Lentz Martins1, Maria de Lourdes de Souza2, María Angélica Arzuaga-Salazar3
ABSTRACT
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Hemorrhage represents a set of causes
that focuses on women during the pregnancy and puerperal period, and that, with
improper attention, results in death. The
authors aimed to analyze maternal deaths
related to hemorrhage that occurred in
the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. The
data were obtained from the Mortality
Information System and Live Births Information System from the Brazilian Ministry
of Health. This was a descriptive study, in
which 491 maternal deaths that occurred
in the period 1997-2010 were analyzed.
Of these, 61 were related to hemorrhage,
corresponding to 12.42%; postpartum
hemorrhage was the most prevalent
cause, with 26 deaths, followed by placental abruption with 15, representing 67.21%
of the cases. The maternal mortality fr...